I love a good walk. It gets the heart pumping and fills the lungs with fresh air. It eases the tensions of to-do lists and day-to-day circumstances. Sometimes I pray aloud on…
Tag: spring
A walk today
I took a walk both yesterday and today on the rail trail south from Copper Hill Road. Today, company was sparse, and what there was were mostly bicycle riders. One of the…
Signs of spring
This has been a long winter here in the Northeast. My friends back in Syracuse are having one of those kind where you don’t see the grass from November ’til April, I hear. …
Conflicted spring leads to unusual birding
Some signs of advancing spring. This afternoon as we drove back from visiting our daughter and family in Connecticut, I noticed numerous robins foraging on the ground wherever they could find an…
White crowned sparrows this week
Tuesday morning as I was eating breakfast on the porch, I had the privilege watching two white crowned sparrows in my lawn. They were beautiful plump taiga (boreal forest) white crowned sparrows. …
Spring flowers seem very early
The weatherman says things are warming up early. http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/15/10704138-warming-up-mighty-early-across-parts-of-us We really didn’t need him to tell us. I’ve had sonowdrops and crocus blooming already for several days. I have daffodils heavily budded…
Red Wing Blackbirds, An Early Sign of Spring
Yesterday, or the day before, my friend George Raterman called me with the news that he had a red-winged blackbird in his bird feeders. This morning my feeder was overrun by a…
Busy weeks: Are they related to a late Easter?
It seems like the weeks since Easter have been unusually busy for me. How about you? I’m wondering how much of this is related to the late date of Easter? Easter was about…
Spring means counting robins
What says spring like counting the returning birds? Last weekend, I went for my neighborhood walk (about 1 mile each way) and counted robins. I was rejoicing to report a total of ten. The…
birds returning
Grackle on my bird feeder this noontime in spite of the piles of snow!